Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETime flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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